Miscellaneous. 149 



postiee truncatd, margine sinuato, radiatim costatd, costis circa 



20-24, elevatis, tuberculato-nodosis, tuberculis rotundatis, ob- 



tusis, margine iwiitrali valde pectinato. 



Shell ovately trigonal, j)Osteriorly truncated, the margin siuuated, 



radiately ribbed ; ribs about 20-24, elevated, tubercularly nodose ; 



tubercles rounded, obtuse, ventral margin strongly pectinated. 



Hab. Cape York, 6 fathoms ; /. Jiikes, Esq. (Mus. Cuming.) — 

 From the Proceedings of the Zoological Society for Nov. 27, 1849. 



OBITUARY. THE REV. WILLIAM KIRBY. 



In our present Number we have to record the death of our vene- 

 rable friend the Rev. William Kirby, M.A., Rector of Barham, Suffolk, 

 at that place, where he had resided sixty-eight years, on Thursday, 

 July 4, in the 91st year of his age. 



Mr. Kirby was Honorary President of the Entomological Society 

 of London, President of the Ipswich Museum, and Fellow of the 

 Royal, Linnsean, Zoological and Geological Societies, besides being 

 honorary member of several foreign societies, and has left behind him 

 an imperishable name as one of the first entomologists of this or any 

 age. Tliis title he would have assured to himself had he written no 

 other work than his ' Monographia Apum Anglise,' published in 1 80 1 , 

 in two volumes, 8vo, in which, from materials almost wholly collected 

 by himself, and the plates of which were mostly etched by his own 

 hand (having taken lessons in the art for this express purpose), he 

 described upwards of 200 of the wild bees of this country, with a 

 largeness and correctness of view as to their family (or as they are 

 now considered, generic) divisions, that excited the warmest admi- 

 ration of British and foreign entomologists. But when to this great 

 work we add his other entomological labours — his numerous and 

 valuable papers in the Transactions of the Linnoean Society, parti- 

 cularly those on the genus Apion, and on the order Strepsiptera ; the 

 'Introduction to Entomology,' written in conjunction with Mr. Spence; 

 the entomological portion of his Bridgewater Treatise ' On the Hi- 

 story, Habits and Instincts of Animals ;' and his description (occu- 

 pying a quarto volume) of the Insects of the ' Fauna Boreali-Ame- 

 ricana ' of Sir John Richardson ; it will be evident how largely and 

 successfully he has contributed to the extension of his favourite sci- 

 ence ; and all this without encroaching in the slightest degree on his 

 professional or social duties ; for, while ranking so high as an ento- 

 mologist, he was during his long life a most exem})lary and active 

 clergyman, beloved by his parishioners of all ranks, and one of the 

 warmest of friends, and most simple-minded, kind-hearted, and pious 

 of men. 



We add the following notices from the Literary Gazette : — 



" Mr. Kirby' s grandfather, John Kirby, bom in the year 1 G90, was 

 the author of 'The Suffolk Traveller,' a work of no mean reputation 

 in its day. Mr. Kirby's uncle, Joshua Kirby, was the author of 

 Dr. Brook Taylor's ' Perspective made Easy ;' he was an intimate ac- 



